Damn, I guess electrons love monster cables if they end up staying to long in them and your sound is delayed...
On a serious note, in my opinion, obviously high quality cables are over rated!
A) you would need a really really bad quality cable to loose some bits in a digital feed
B) as for analog cables, as long as it doesn't pick up radio noise and kept as short as possible, it's good. Resistance is the only real problem in a speaker cable... Getting the right length cable and having a bigger gauge can help that way more that 0% o2 and zirconium enhanced, blabla... And for lower loaded cables like rca and audio, smaller gauge (lower capacitance, less loss of high frequency) and having then short helps with interference. But I think most of the difference between those cables is mostly theoretical and probably happens in frequencies we can't even hear.
Finaly, was the music you're listening to recorded using all super high quality cables and such ? Are the cables inside your equipment high quality ? Didn't think so.
What's the point in having Wifi capabilities in an iPod when there currently are very few applications that take advantage of it and the 'big' (relatively to what it does) processor. Not to mention the crap Apple would probably have it come with it, 20$ for the apps, restrictive file sharing, basicly giving you an awesome product but cutting what it could possibly do in half, because it's not 'what it's intended to do'. argh [/rant]
Unless of course Apple is planning on opening it's portable platform...
Wouldn't it be awesome to have a program that allows you to access your home computer by wifi to take advantage of it's resources and basically use the 'iPod' as a wireless monitor/speaker/mouse/keyboard. But maybe that would be just too good of an idea, I guess modifing an OS to fit on the small screen and stuff would be just too much trouble compared to cramming more power in the iPod.
Look on the bright side, if they ever come to take over the world, they will be hackable or they will just crash, because any kind of intelligence (including the AI of those robots that WILL take over the world) can't make microsoft seamless.
I admit that they are still probably doing financially well as of now but I think the general public is getting to be more aware that Windows isn't the be all and end all of what a PC has to be. You know, the general perception that computers aren't reliable machines is slowly turning into "windows is a poorly designed os"...
I don't see why people are whinnying. The Linux community is only trying to defend itself and the rules it's been playing by for the last decades while others didn't quite see the interest in it.
Now that MS is slowly dying, all of a sudden attention is going towards linux, witch I think is a good thing as it's a very viable option. The people protecting these licenses are basically making sure that the os (well mostly it's kernel) is still going for the public, not to big companies... as it could quite rapidly taken over.
The thing is, people don't realize, weather you lappy has a "i" name or is slick white or has an OS named after a felin, it still is made in China by underpayed people and has the same components. Maybe the apple lappies are more brone to exploding, but the difference between PC users and Apple is that the PC users admit there are flaws in there comps. I really like Apple computers but I really don't like the hole cult serounding it, it's kinda like doing everything backwards and isolating yourself in your little corner....
"My father-in-law is heading back to school in the spring and wants a laptop for Christmas. The only catch is their budget is around $400 and he does not want a netbook. He's not very "tech savvy" at all and doesn't need a hoss of a machine (not that $400 could get you one). We would like to get it for him as soon as possible and would love some input."
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